Mathias Rohe

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Mathias Rohe (born October 12, 1959 in Stuttgart ) is a German legal and Islamic scholar . He holds the chair for civil law, international private law and comparative law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

Life

Rohe passed his Abitur in 1978 at the Wirtemberg-Gymnasium Stuttgart- Untertürkheim ; he received the Scheffel Prize for the best performance in German. After spending time in the Orient and doing his civilian service in Gomadingen , he studied law and Islamic sciences at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and in Damascus from 1981 onwards as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . He passed the first state examination in law in 1988 and obtained a master's degree in 1989 (subject: classical Islamic law ). After completing his legal preparatory service in Tübingen, Rohe completed his studies in 1992 with the second state examination in law. Rohe in 1993 with a thesis on Private International Law to Dr. jur. PhD. His dissertation was awarded the Reinhold-und-Maria-Teufel-Foundation in Tuttlingen .

From 1993 to 1997 he was a research assistant to Wernhard Möschel . In 1997 the habilitation followed (subject: "Network contracts - legal problems of complex contractual relationships") for the subjects civil law, international private and procedural law , comparative law and European law . He then took up chairs in Augsburg and Potsdam. Since 1997 he has held the chair for civil law , international private law and comparative law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . In 2008 he was the founding director of the Erlangen Center for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE). From 2004 to 2006 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law there. He turned down a call to Tübingen in 2004. In addition, he is u. a. Managing Director of the Advisory Board of the Department for Islamic-Religious Studies and member of the board of the Central Institute for Anthropology of Religion.

From 2001 to 2007, Rohe was a part-time judge at the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court .

He was a member of the first German Islam Conference (DIK) from 2006 to 2009; there member of AG 2 (constitutional issues). In 2010, Rohe was a project group member of the second German Islam Conference. In 2012/13 he was working group leader on Islamism and Islamophobia in the dialogue forum “Islam in Austria” initiated by the State Secretariat for Integration . 2011 to 2013 head of the parallel justice working group of the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice .

Rohe is married and has two children.

Works and positions

Rohe published commentary in the large commentary on the civil procedure code of Wieczorek / Schütze and in the commentary on the civil code of Bamberger / Roth.

Among other things, Rohe deals with the danger posed by Islamism and advises the protection of the constitution as an expert . He takes the view that the Sharia in principle fulfills the same functions as the legal systems of Western societies. The Sharia should also enforce a social order of peace and create a balance of interests between the people. From a western point of view, the legal understanding of Sharia does not cause any major problems. Significant content-related collisions would, however, arise from partial aspects of traditional and extremist views that violate human rights (in particular corporal criminal law and unequal treatment of the sexes and religions).

In 2006, a study by Rohe and a team of specialists, commissioned by the Austrian Ministry of the Interior, caused a sensation in which Muslims living in Austria were divided into four groups that represent certain attitudes. 18% belong to the group of religious conservatives, 27% to the traditional conservatives, 31% to the moderate liberals and 24% to the secularized. Rohe warned against tipping over under worsened framework conditions, which could lead to a kind of opposing society. The study was criticized by the Austrian Society for Sociology (ÖGS) for allegedly “grossest methodological and technical deficiencies” and the “ability of the study author” was questioned.

On July 18, 2007, Rohe gave a public lecture organized by the city of Munich , which was disrupted by opponents of Islam and had to be broken off. He then received two death threats posted as commentary on the Politically Incorrect blog . Rohe documents this incident on the website of his university and takes a critical look at the positions of Alice Schwarzer and Hans-Peter Raddatz .

His book The Islamic Law, first published in 2009 . History and the present were presented by the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW, issue 50/2009) as one of the six most read books of the year and in the same year received the joint award "Geisteswissenschaften International" from the German book trade association , the Fritz Thyssen Foundation , the Foreign Office and VG Wort .

criticism

The Islam critic Necla Kelek accused Rohe of wanting to implant Islamic legal conceptions into German law through the back door of the methodological dispute. In addition, as a member of the relevant working group at the first Islamic Conference, it was recommended that - against the resistance of the "secular Muslims" - the headscarf should be accepted for children as "a religious rule" and tolerated in schools. In his reply, Rohe clearly rejected Kelek's allegations and, on his part, criticized the fact that Kelek ignored the foundations of the German legal system .

In 2009, the Islamic scholar Tilman Nagel criticized the raw work Islamic Law: Past and Present , complaining, among other things, of “serious methodological deficiencies”.

Memberships

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Islam in Germany. Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69807-1 .
  • with Prakash Shah, Marie-Claire Foblets (Ed.): Family, Religion and Law - Cultural Encounters in Europe . Ashgate, Farnham 2014, ISBN 978-1-47243-317-6 .
  • with Havva Engin , Mouhanad Khorchide , Ümer Öszoy , Hansjörg Schmid (eds.): Christianity and Islam in Germany: Basics, perspectives and experiences of living together . 2 volumes. On behalf of the Eugen Biser Foundation , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-31188-8 . (2nd edition 2015)
  • Islamic Law: An Introduction (= Beck series . 2777). Beck, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64662-1 .
  • with Stefan Bechthold, Joachim Jickeli (eds.): Law, order and competition: Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Wernhard Möschel . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-4568-8 .
  • with Harry Harun Behr , Hansjörg Schmid (Ed.): What am I supposed to do here ?. Orientation towards the real world of Muslim pupils as a challenge for Islamic religious instruction (= Islam and school . Vol. 2). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10090-0 .
  • Islamic law. Past and present (= historical library of the Gerda Henkel Foundation ). Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57955-4 . (3rd edition 2011)
  • with Harry Harun Behr, Hansjörg Schmid (ed.): "Reading the Koran is not enough!". Professional profile and real context for a new professional field. On the way to Islamic religious instruction (= Islam and school . Vol. 1). Lit, Berlin a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-0403-9 .
  • Perspectives and challenges in the integration of Muslim fellow citizens in Austria. Executive summary . Security Academy / Federal Ministry of the Interior , Vienna, May 2006 (so-called Prokop study) ( PDF )
  • Islam - Everyday Conflicts and Solutions: Legal Perspectives (= Herder Spectrum . Vol. 4942). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-451-04942-2 .
  • Network contracts: Legal problems of complex contractual relationships (= Jus privatum . Vol. 23). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-16-146884-8 (= plus habilitation thesis, University of Tübingen, 1996/97)
  • Regarding the validity of the offense status: tie-in justice taking into account legal historical and comparative legal findings including current reform proposals (= studies on foreign and international private law . 43). Mohr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-16-146345-5 . (= also dissertation, University of Tübingen, 1993)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from April 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ https://www.ezire.fau.de/person/erlanger-zentrum-fuer-islam-und-recht-in-europa/
  3. ^ From a report by the German Federal Agency for Political Education about a Rohe lecture in March 2003; see. [1]
  4. ↑ "Sociologists sharply criticize Muslim study", SCIENCE.ORF.AT/APA, May 24, 2006 Archived copy ( memento of December 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). Rohe replied to the critics in an interview in "Standard" on Feb. 26, 2007 [2]
  5. ↑ Die Welt : Death Threats for Dialogue with Muslims , August 10, 2007
  6. ↑ https://taz.de/!300019/
  7. ↑ http://www.boersenverein.de/de/158446/Pressefotos/343011
  8. ↑ Necla Kelek: That is cultural relativism. FAZ, February 15, 2011.
  9. ^ Mathias Rohe: That is legal culture relativism. FAZ, February 22, 2011
  10. ↑ Wages and punishment in this world and in the hereafter NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 6, 2009, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on May 10, 2018]).
  11. ^ Website of the Society for Arab and Islamic Law
  12. ↑ https://www.kcid.fau.de/das-projekt/wissenschaftlicher-beirat/
  13. ↑ From medieval studies to experimental physics: Bavarian Academy of Sciences elects 11 new members. Press release from March 22, 2018 from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Retrieved March 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rohe, Mathias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam and law, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart